Sentence examples for precedents have from inspiring English sources

Without army intervention, without the bloodshed that has preceded major changes in the past, important precedents have been set: The independence of the judiciary matters, and democratically-elected governments cannot be casually dismissed.

Encouraging precedents have been set elsewhere.

Academics have argued that state constitutions and legal precedents have made pension promises hard to break.

Many of the Senate's antique rules and precedents have been warped beyond recognition by the modern pressures of partisanship.

Such precedents have slowly convinced the government and local communities of the transformative effect of blocking-out.

The court's recent precedents have limited the ability of Congress to make federal laws binding on the states.

Guessing Eisenman's historical precedents has been something of a sport among her critics.

So McCain-Feingold, and two Supreme Court precedents, had to be mostly overruled.

The precedent has been set.

A new diplomatic precedent had been established.

"A very bad precedent has been set.